And pornography... on a site that many people use at work.
– MysticialAug 12 '14 at 7:08

@Raedwald Okay But after user getting 10 reputation means they can share any image right? that time spam is not appear?
– PREMKUMARAug 12 '14 at 7:09

What exactly is the feature-request? Do you want to remove the 10-rep barrier or do you want to lower it to say 5-rep?
– Infinite RecursionAug 12 '14 at 7:10

No i want to use this Image add feature for all user. because for beginners will explain the issue using Image. so only i asked @InfiniteRecursion
– PREMKUMARAug 12 '14 at 7:12

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It takes effort to get those first 10 points. That effort needs to be spent on each and every throw-away account that the troll/spammer makes.
– MysticialAug 12 '14 at 7:12

@Mysticial Okay I understood. My Request is, If i am beginner for stack overflow I have got problem in my Program i Need to explain problem using Some image what i can do? I just asked that problem only. Sorry to ask anything wrong
– PREMKUMARAug 12 '14 at 7:16

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It's fast enough to earn those points. Also, if the question is any good and the image really helps, there are enough people who will be ready to edit the post immediately. Anyway, that barrier seems often not high enough to stop code-as-image posts.
– DeduplicatorAug 12 '14 at 7:24

@Deduplicator But I <3 code-as-image posts. They make me so happy.
– royhowieAug 12 '14 at 7:50

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I don't quite understand the response you're receiving, this is a perfectly valid and logical question.
– Tim Post♦Aug 12 '14 at 7:57

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@TimPost: Probably because many people on meta cannotget understand they should only vote on feature-requests according to (dis-)agreement.
– DeduplicatorAug 12 '14 at 8:09

@Mysticial Out of interest, have there actually been any instances of people posting pornographic images in their questions/answers? I'd guess there probably has been at some point, but I'd also guess that it's a pretty rare occurrence.
– JonKAug 12 '14 at 9:22

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@JonK I've seen it in chat a number of times, but not on the main site - probably because they get moderated very quickly.
– MysticialAug 12 '14 at 16:42

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This question is probably more interesting than you realized when you asked it. About a year ago, we looked at every single image that was blocked due to this restriction (we log each incident), and the results were interesting:

We then took a look at the stuff that was 'normal' (in a sense that it wasn't porn, Hitler, Hitler porn, or the like). About a third of it was:

A screen shot of someone's code in their IDE instead of code being put in the question and formatted

A photocopy or picture of a text book or assignment

A picture of a broken web site, with little to no other text accompanying it

While it's labeled to prevent abuse, it has the added side effect of helping quite a few people have a better initial experience on the site by insisting that which should be text is actually text, and that at least a modicum of effort is put into explaining the problem. Yes, people can still ask bad questions, but this puts the breaks on several really bad categories of them.

You can link to, or provide the URL for any supplementary information, photos, diagrams, screen shots, etc - but the keyword there is supplementary. If it weren't for the restriction, folks would be a bit more inclined to get that wrong, and much more likely to have a miserable experience subsequently.

In short, we examined the possibility of loosening or removing the restriction, but found that doing so wouldn't be a very good idea - just for reasons quite different than we anticipated :)

Thanks for the breakdown (and the confirmation that it stops many bad questions with code-as-image and the like). It's a shame there's no way to stop all of them without unacceptably many false positives though...
– DeduplicatorAug 12 '14 at 8:01

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On the other hand, the reason why there's so little porn is that trolls will discover that 10-rep barrier on the first try and never try again. If you lift the restriction, they'll try once, realize that it works, and keep doing it over and over.
– MysticialAug 12 '14 at 8:03

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Looking at the actual stuff that was blocked was quite surprising, we expected it to be a bit more 'saucy' than it was. Another case of us accidentally getting something right, I'd say.
– Tim Post♦Aug 12 '14 at 8:04

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Uh... you still have any of those hitler porn pics? Asking for a friend...
– WillSep 10 '15 at 18:32

Related:

Very nice! I've said quite a few times something along "just paste the URL of your image into your post, if it's helpful then another user will take care of embedding it". Now there's one less thing to explain to newcomers. :-)
– Lucas TrzesniewskiOct 6 '15 at 17:52